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Our review count is small and public. This page explains what our client reviews mean, how to check any review profile yourself, and the rules we follow when collecting them.
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Online Website Marketing holds a 5.0 rating on Google from 7 client reviews. That number is small, and we publish it as it is. Client reviews only work as proof when you can open the profile. You need to read the reviewer names and see the dates. Undated screenshots prove nothing at all.
Any testimonial example shown in this section is labelled illustrative when it is a teaching example rather than a record of real work. Verified client reviews are published here with names and dates as clients approve them.
Our Review Count Today
We hold a 5.0 rating on Google from 7 client reviews. We are stating it that way on purpose, with the count attached, because a rating without a count is one of the oldest tricks in local marketing. A perfect five from seven people and a perfect five from four hundred people are wildly different claims, and printing the stars alone hides which one you are looking at. Seven is a small number. We started in 2019 and we have not run an aggressive review campaign on ourselves, which is a fair thing to hold against us given that review generation is part of what we sell. The honest explanation is that we have prioritized client work over our own marketing, which is common in this industry and not really a virtue. What we will not do is inflate the number. No purchased reviews, no client reviews from friends who were never clients, no asking a satisfied contact to write about work they did not receive. As real clients leave real reviews, the count grows on its own and you can watch it grow, which is exactly the kind of proof that survives inspection.
Why Undated Screenshots Mean Nothing
A review screenshot on an agency website is one of the weakest forms of evidence available, and it is everywhere. Editing text in a browser takes seconds and leaves no trace in the image. Even when a screenshot is completely genuine, it usually strips out everything that made the review credible: the reviewer profile you could click, the date, the review count of that reviewer, and the other reviews they have written. A five star quote in a box with a first name and a last initial tells you nothing about whether that person exists. Dates matter as much as authenticity. A glowing review from 2019 describes a company that may have changed owners, staff, and process since. A profile with twelve reviews where the newest is three years old is telling you something important about the current business. That is why we do not build this page out of screenshots. We point you at the live profile instead, because the only review evidence worth anything is evidence hosted somewhere the agency cannot edit.
How to Verify Any Review Profile
Spend ten minutes on this before you hire any agency or any contractor, and use the same checks on us. The pattern of a review profile reveals more than the words in it. Purchased reviews tend to arrive in bursts, come from accounts with one review and no photo, use short generic praise with no specifics about the work, and often repeat the business name and city in a way real customers never do. Genuine reviews are uneven. They mention names, timelines, and small details, they sometimes include a mild complaint inside a positive review, and they arrive at irregular intervals over years. Also check whether the business responds, and how it responds to criticism, since that is the clearest available preview of how you will be treated when something goes wrong.
- Open the live profile rather than reading screenshots on the company website
- Sort by newest and check whether reviews are still arriving
- Look for clusters of client reviews posted within a few days of each other
- Click reviewer names and see whether they have any other review history
- Look for specifics: names, timelines, what the work involved
- Read the responses, especially responses to anything less than five stars
- Compare the review count to the businesses ranking above them
Our Rules for Collecting Reviews
These rules apply to our own reviews and to every review system we build for a client. We do not pay for client reviews, in cash, discounts, gift cards, or entries into a drawing. Beyond being against the platform rules, an incentive changes what people write and readers can feel it. We do not gate reviews, which means we do not survey people first and only send the happy ones to Google while quietly routing the unhappy ones to a private form. That practice is against Google policy and it also destroys the thing that makes reviews useful, which is that they include the bad experiences. We do not write reviews for clients to post. We do not ask staff or family to review a business they never hired. We ask real customers, at the right moment, with a direct link that removes the friction, and then we accept whatever they write. A profile built this way grows more slowly and holds up under any amount of scrutiny, which is the entire point.
- No paid, incentivized, or traded reviews of any kind
- No review gating that filters unhappy customers away from public platforms
- No client reviews written by us or by anyone who was not a customer
- Ask every customer, not only the ones we expect to be happy
- Time the request to the moment the work was completed
- Make it one tap, since friction is what stops good reviews
Building a Review Profile Honestly
For most local businesses, reviews are the second biggest factor in whether a searcher picks you after you become visible. Volume and recency both matter, and recency is the part owners underestimate. Fifty reviews from this year usually outperform three hundred from 2018, because searchers read the newest ones and Google appears to weigh freshness in local results. The realistic target is not a round number we invent. Look at the three businesses currently sitting in the map pack for your main search term. That count is your target, because those are the businesses you are actually competing against for the same clicks. Getting there takes a system, not a push. The system asks every completed customer, sends the request within a day while the experience is fresh, uses a single link that opens straight to the review box, and follows up once. It also trains whoever finishes the job to mention it out loud, because a request from the technician who did the work converts far better than an email from an office nobody met.
What Happens With a Negative Review
You will get one eventually, and it is less damaging than it feels the day it appears. A profile of nothing but five star reviews reads as suspicious to experienced buyers, and many people specifically sort to the low reviews to see how a business handles pressure. That response is the most valuable public writing a local business does, because it is read by every future customer who checks. The rules are simple and hard to follow when you are angry. Respond within a day or two. Do not argue the facts in public even when you are right. Do not reveal anything about the customer or their job. Acknowledge the experience, state briefly what you would normally do, and move the specifics to a phone call. Then actually fix whatever caused it, because the same complaint appearing three times is a process problem, not bad luck. Fake reviews and reviews that break platform policy can be reported, and sometimes they come down, but the process is slow and unreliable. A steady flow of new honest reviews buries a bad one faster than any appeal.